James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

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This year, as we partnered with COVEAlliance (a primary school and health center in Uganda), we learned about the challenges faced in health in the Kapeeka community and sought ways we can, as partners, seek to address health disparities for our family across the globe. Last summer, COVE staff and GROW interns noted that the current medical facilities are lacking the necessary access to water for hand-washing between patients. Temporary measures in increasing sanitation have been implemented, such as the use of hand-washing stations, gloves, and hand sanitizer. However, these are only short-term measures, and studies have shown that hand-washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and acute respiratory infections by a quarter. Currently, there is also a Typhoid Fever epidemic in the area (51% of the rural population), and hand-washing is absolutely necessary to reduce transmission of the disease.
GlobeMed at Princeton hopes to raise $3,000 this year to provide the health clinic of the St. Jerome COVE Center with running water. The development of this infrastructure is the first step to promoting hand sanitation, which is vital for the prevention of communicable diseases that afflict the region.
Your support is crucial to expanding the services offered by the clinic and improving the quality and quantity of healthcare for both the students at St. Jerome COVE Primary School and the surrounding community. With your help, GlobeMed at Princeton and COVE Alliance hope to strengthen their partnership and create a sustainable, long-lasting impact in the community. We hope that you consider making a donation to our cause here; anything that you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Three students with distinct projects spanning the globe show the range of opportunities in film production at Princeton. (Video by the Lewis Center for the Arts)

published:05 Sep 2017

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Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure confusion at the struggling end,” says Loh.
Po-Shen Loh is a Hertz Foundation fellow and recipient of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Grant for graduate study in the applications of the physical, biological and engineering sciences. With the support of the Fannie and John HertzFoundation, he pursued a PhD in combinatorics at the PureMathDepartment at Princeton University.
The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the hard sciences. Hertz Fellowships are among the most prestigious in the world, and the foundation has invested over $200 million in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,100 brilliant and creative young scientists, who have gone on to become Nobel laureates, high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, inventors, Silicon Valley leaders, and tenured university professors. For more information, visit hertzfoundation.org.
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Transcript: About three years ago I became the national coach of the United StatesInternationalMath Olympian Team. I was very happy for a day thinking this is very interesting. But the next day I started to think that maybe I should do something with this. And I decided that I wanted to focus not only on training an elite group of students but trying to do as much as I could to boost the baseline mathematics capability in this entire country.
Unfortunately I had no money, no connections and only one person. So the only thing I knew was mathematics, algorithms and this probability and network theory. So after thinking for some time I actually came to an idea which was based on using these core mathematical areas that I'd been working with to actually build a solution for education that could be delivered for free on every smart phone. This is actually the project I'm working on right now called Expii.
Our principle is that actually you could turn that smart phone into a virtual tutor which automates what a person would get if they hired a tutor. It wouldn't be as good as a tutor, but it could get very close. And if you could deliver a free almost tutor on every smart phone in the United States you might solve equity problems, you might be able to allow everyone, even if they live in a different ZIPCode, to be able to access this tutor, which previously had only been accessible to people who are quite wealthy. Because today the cost of a tutor is in the $30 an hour, $20 an hour, $50 an hour depending on how you look at it. If you can reduce that to zero dollars an hour you would actually open up this accessibility to everyone.
If we realize that what we're trying to build is this virtual tutor then you actually, again, can start to conceptualize well knowledge happens to be all of these concepts linked together in this network. Then the problem becomes if you have this network how do you mathematically analyze where a person should go next? That can be done by using probability and statistics to find new ways to measure how much each person understands about each concept. Statistics, because the way that one would measure this is by asking them questions.
The experience someone has is they indicate what they want to learn and then the system starts to pitch questions at them, questions that they would need to know how to answer in order to understand what they claim they want to understand. As the questions come, based on people's responses to the questions, the system adjusts the difficulty of the questions and where the next questions come from in the same way that a human tutor adjusts their line of questioning based on whether a person is successful or not successful at the previous question. If the student reaches a point where they are hopelessly confused, meaning they don't know how to do this question at all, then the system suggests that maybe they could read some explanations. [transcript truncated]

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

published:17 Mar 2015

views:1312

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http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-magellans-circumnavigation-of-the-globe
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/03/letters-who-circumnavigated-earth-first.html
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At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

Globe

A globe is a three-dimensional, spherical, scale model of Earth (terrestrial globe or geographical globe) or other celestial body such as a planet or moon. While models can be made of objects with arbitrary or irregular shapes, the term globe is used only for models of objects that are approximately spherical. The word “globe” comes from the Latin word globus, meaning round mass or sphere. Some terrestrial globes include relief to show mountains and other features on the Earth’s surface.

There are also globes, called celestial globes or astronomical globes, which are spherical representations of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars and constellations in the sky.

Terrestrial and planetary

Flat maps are created using a map projection that inevitably introduces an increasing amount of distortion the larger the area that the map shows. A globe is the only representation of the Earth that does not distort either the shape or the size of large features– land masses, bodies of water, etc.

The Amazing

The Amazing is a Swedish band whose members include Reine Fiske, who plays with Dungen, and Christoffer Gunrup, who played in Granada and with Anna Järvinen. Fredrik Swahn, Alexis Benson, and drummer Moussa Fadera are also in The Amazing.

Their fourth album, Picture You, was released on February 17, 2015. Allmusic noted that it "is the culmination of all their work, with a combination of wonderfully rich arrangements, inspired playing and singing, and a batch of lengthy songs that both warm the heart and expand the mind".

JPEG

JPEG (/ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/JAY-peg) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.

JPEG compression is used in a number of image file formats. JPEG/Exif is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices; along with JPEG/JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web. These format variations are often not distinguished, and are simply called JPEG.

James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

5:47

Walk around Princeton & University Summer 2017

Walk around Princeton & University Summer 2017

Walk around Princeton & University Summer 2017

GlobeMed at Princeton

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This year, as we partnered with COVEAlliance (a primary school and health center in Uganda), we learned about the challenges faced in health in the Kapeeka community and sought ways we can, as partners, seek to address health disparities for our family across the globe. Last summer, COVE staff and GROW interns noted that the current medical facilities are lacking the necessary access to water for hand-washing between patients. Temporary measures in increasing sanitation have been implemented, such as the use of hand-washing stations, gloves, and hand sanitizer. However, these are only short-term measures, and studies have shown that hand-washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and acute respiratory infections by a quarter. Currently, there is also a Typhoid Fever epidemic in the area (51% of the rural population), and hand-washing is absolutely necessary to reduce transmission of the disease.
GlobeMed at Princeton hopes to raise $3,000 this year to provide the health clinic of the St. Jerome COVE Center with running water. The development of this infrastructure is the first step to promoting hand sanitation, which is vital for the prevention of communicable diseases that afflict the region.
Your support is crucial to expanding the services offered by the clinic and improving the quality and quantity of healthcare for both the students at St. Jerome COVE Primary School and the surrounding community. With your help, GlobeMed at Princeton and COVE Alliance hope to strengthen their partnership and create a sustainable, long-lasting impact in the community. We hope that you consider making a donation to our cause here; anything that you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Student filmmakers in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Three students with distinct projects spanning the globe show the range of opportunities in film production at Princeton. (Video by the Lewis Center for the Arts)

4:13

How a Math Algorithm Could Educate the Whole World — for Free | Po-Shen Loh

How a Math Algorithm Could Educate the Whole World — for Free | Po-Shen Loh

How a Math Algorithm Could Educate the Whole World — for Free | Po-Shen Loh

Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure confusion at the struggling end,” says Loh.
Po-Shen Loh is a Hertz Foundation fellow and recipient of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Grant for graduate study in the applications of the physical, biological and engineering sciences. With the support of the Fannie and John HertzFoundation, he pursued a PhD in combinatorics at the PureMathDepartment at Princeton University.
The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the hard sciences. Hertz Fellowships are among the most prestigious in the world, and the foundation has invested over $200 million in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,100 brilliant and creative young scientists, who have gone on to become Nobel laureates, high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, inventors, Silicon Valley leaders, and tenured university professors. For more information, visit hertzfoundation.org.
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Transcript: About three years ago I became the national coach of the United StatesInternationalMath Olympian Team. I was very happy for a day thinking this is very interesting. But the next day I started to think that maybe I should do something with this. And I decided that I wanted to focus not only on training an elite group of students but trying to do as much as I could to boost the baseline mathematics capability in this entire country.
Unfortunately I had no money, no connections and only one person. So the only thing I knew was mathematics, algorithms and this probability and network theory. So after thinking for some time I actually came to an idea which was based on using these core mathematical areas that I'd been working with to actually build a solution for education that could be delivered for free on every smart phone. This is actually the project I'm working on right now called Expii.
Our principle is that actually you could turn that smart phone into a virtual tutor which automates what a person would get if they hired a tutor. It wouldn't be as good as a tutor, but it could get very close. And if you could deliver a free almost tutor on every smart phone in the United States you might solve equity problems, you might be able to allow everyone, even if they live in a different ZIPCode, to be able to access this tutor, which previously had only been accessible to people who are quite wealthy. Because today the cost of a tutor is in the $30 an hour, $20 an hour, $50 an hour depending on how you look at it. If you can reduce that to zero dollars an hour you would actually open up this accessibility to everyone.
If we realize that what we're trying to build is this virtual tutor then you actually, again, can start to conceptualize well knowledge happens to be all of these concepts linked together in this network. Then the problem becomes if you have this network how do you mathematically analyze where a person should go next? That can be done by using probability and statistics to find new ways to measure how much each person understands about each concept. Statistics, because the way that one would measure this is by asking them questions.
The experience someone has is they indicate what they want to learn and then the system starts to pitch questions at them, questions that they would need to know how to answer in order to understand what they claim they want to understand. As the questions come, based on people's responses to the questions, the system adjusts the difficulty of the questions and where the next questions come from in the same way that a human tutor adjusts their line of questioning based on whether a person is successful or not successful at the previous question. If the student reaches a point where they are hopelessly confused, meaning they don't know how to do this question at all, then the system suggests that maybe they could read some explanations. [transcript truncated]

'Money no problem. We care tech.'-China startups

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

9:48

Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World?

Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World?

Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World?

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There’s no doubt that Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) intended to have a successful journey when his expedition set off from Spain on September 20, 1519. He had planned for the departure meticulously, hoping to prove that people could sail all the way around the world, and to be the first to do it. His ambition was spurred on by the adventures of previous explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the man who marched across the Panamanian isthmus to the Pacific Ocean. There was little doubt in Magellan’s mind that it could be done.
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Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/ferdinand-magellan-9395202
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-magellans-circumnavigation-of-the-globe
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/03/letters-who-circumnavigated-earth-first.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circumnavigations
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-slave-who-circumnavigated-the-world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Balboa.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/PSM_V57_D097_Hms_beagle_in_the_straits_of_magellan.png
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Communiversity in Princeton - Flash Mob

Communiversity in Princeton - Flash Mob

Communiversity in Princeton - Flash Mob

'Shakespeare at Princeton'

At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

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The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Steve Carell's That What She Said Speech

Steve Carell's That What She Said Speech

Steve Carell's That What She Said Speech

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Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.
2011-4644P rev. 2017

Ivy League Open Letter to Incoming Students THINK for YOURSELF!

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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn’t these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders—whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers—had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe’s military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe’s historic global supremacy.

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Winning with the Princeton Style Offense

Winning with the Princeton Style Offense

Winning with the Princeton Style Offense

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James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the ...

published: 16 Jun 2012

Walk around Princeton & University Summer 2017

GlobeMed at Princeton

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Student filmmakers in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Three students with distinct projects spanning the globe show the range of opportunities in film production at Princeton. (Video by the Lewis Center for the Arts)

published: 05 Sep 2017

How a Math Algorithm Could Educate the Whole World — for Free | Po-Shen Loh

Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure...

Princeton Marching Band Invades Harvard's Bookstore

Is Earth Actually Flat?

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Kansas flatness study: (the pancakes used in the study were from IHOP): http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html
the flatness of other states: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/science-several-us-states-led-by-florida-are-flatter-than-a-pancake/284348/
"The Meaning Of It All" by Richard Feynman: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Meaning-All-Richard-Feynman/dp/0141031441
“The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pig-That-Wants-Eaten/dp/1847081282
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'Money no problem. We care tech.'-China startups

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

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Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World?

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Communiversity in Princeton - Flash Mob

'Shakespeare at Princeton'

At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

published: 21 Apr 2014

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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published: 03 Feb 2015

Steve Carell's That What She Said Speech

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Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.
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Princeton Society Foundation Diwali Gala 2015

Ivy League Open Letter to Incoming Students THINK for YOURSELF!

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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn’t these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, politic...

published: 15 Jul 2015

Winning with the Princeton Style Offense

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James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

GlobeMed at Princeton

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This year, as we partnered with COVEAlliance (a primary school and health center in Uganda), we learned about the challenges faced in health in the Kapeeka community and sought ways we can, as partners, seek to address health disparities for our family across the globe. Last summer, COVE staff and GROW interns noted that the current medical facilities are lacking the necessary access to water for hand-washing between patients. Temporary measures in increasing sanitation have been implemented, such as the use of hand-washing stations, gloves, and hand sanitizer. However, these are only short-term measures, and studies have shown that hand-washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and acute respiratory infections by a quarter. Currently, there is also a Typhoid Fever epidemic in the area (51% of the rural population), and hand-washing is absolutely necessary to reduce transmission of the disease.
GlobeMed at Princeton hopes to raise $3,000 this year to provide the health clinic of the St. Jerome COVE Center with running water. The development of this infrastructure is the first step to promoting hand sanitation, which is vital for the prevention of communicable diseases that afflict the region.
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This year, as we partnered with COVEAlliance (a primary school and health center in Uganda), we learned about the challenges faced in health in the Kapeeka community and sought ways we can, as partners, seek to address health disparities for our family across the globe. Last summer, COVE staff and GROW interns noted that the current medical facilities are lacking the necessary access to water for hand-washing between patients. Temporary measures in increasing sanitation have been implemented, such as the use of hand-washing stations, gloves, and hand sanitizer. However, these are only short-term measures, and studies have shown that hand-washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and acute respiratory infections by a quarter. Currently, there is also a Typhoid Fever epidemic in the area (51% of the rural population), and hand-washing is absolutely necessary to reduce transmission of the disease.
GlobeMed at Princeton hopes to raise $3,000 this year to provide the health clinic of the St. Jerome COVE Center with running water. The development of this infrastructure is the first step to promoting hand sanitation, which is vital for the prevention of communicable diseases that afflict the region.
Your support is crucial to expanding the services offered by the clinic and improving the quality and quantity of healthcare for both the students at St. Jerome COVE Primary School and the surrounding community. With your help, GlobeMed at Princeton and COVE Alliance hope to strengthen their partnership and create a sustainable, long-lasting impact in the community. We hope that you consider making a donation to our cause here; anything that you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure confusion at the struggling end,” says Loh.
Po-Shen Loh is a Hertz Foundation fellow and recipient of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Grant for graduate study in the applications of the physical, biological and engineering sciences. With the support of the Fannie and John HertzFoundation, he pursued a PhD in combinatorics at the PureMathDepartment at Princeton University.
The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the hard sciences. Hertz Fellowships are among the most prestigious in the world, and the foundation has invested over $200 million in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,100 brilliant and creative young scientists, who have gone on to become Nobel laureates, high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, inventors, Silicon Valley leaders, and tenured university professors. For more information, visit hertzfoundation.org.
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Transcript: About three years ago I became the national coach of the United StatesInternationalMath Olympian Team. I was very happy for a day thinking this is very interesting. But the next day I started to think that maybe I should do something with this. And I decided that I wanted to focus not only on training an elite group of students but trying to do as much as I could to boost the baseline mathematics capability in this entire country.
Unfortunately I had no money, no connections and only one person. So the only thing I knew was mathematics, algorithms and this probability and network theory. So after thinking for some time I actually came to an idea which was based on using these core mathematical areas that I'd been working with to actually build a solution for education that could be delivered for free on every smart phone. This is actually the project I'm working on right now called Expii.
Our principle is that actually you could turn that smart phone into a virtual tutor which automates what a person would get if they hired a tutor. It wouldn't be as good as a tutor, but it could get very close. And if you could deliver a free almost tutor on every smart phone in the United States you might solve equity problems, you might be able to allow everyone, even if they live in a different ZIPCode, to be able to access this tutor, which previously had only been accessible to people who are quite wealthy. Because today the cost of a tutor is in the $30 an hour, $20 an hour, $50 an hour depending on how you look at it. If you can reduce that to zero dollars an hour you would actually open up this accessibility to everyone.
If we realize that what we're trying to build is this virtual tutor then you actually, again, can start to conceptualize well knowledge happens to be all of these concepts linked together in this network. Then the problem becomes if you have this network how do you mathematically analyze where a person should go next? That can be done by using probability and statistics to find new ways to measure how much each person understands about each concept. Statistics, because the way that one would measure this is by asking them questions.
The experience someone has is they indicate what they want to learn and then the system starts to pitch questions at them, questions that they would need to know how to answer in order to understand what they claim they want to understand. As the questions come, based on people's responses to the questions, the system adjusts the difficulty of the questions and where the next questions come from in the same way that a human tutor adjusts their line of questioning based on whether a person is successful or not successful at the previous question. If the student reaches a point where they are hopelessly confused, meaning they don't know how to do this question at all, then the system suggests that maybe they could read some explanations. [transcript truncated]

Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure confusion at the struggling end,” says Loh.
Po-Shen Loh is a Hertz Foundation fellow and recipient of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Grant for graduate study in the applications of the physical, biological and engineering sciences. With the support of the Fannie and John HertzFoundation, he pursued a PhD in combinatorics at the PureMathDepartment at Princeton University.
The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the hard sciences. Hertz Fellowships are among the most prestigious in the world, and the foundation has invested over $200 million in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,100 brilliant and creative young scientists, who have gone on to become Nobel laureates, high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, inventors, Silicon Valley leaders, and tenured university professors. For more information, visit hertzfoundation.org.
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Transcript: About three years ago I became the national coach of the United StatesInternationalMath Olympian Team. I was very happy for a day thinking this is very interesting. But the next day I started to think that maybe I should do something with this. And I decided that I wanted to focus not only on training an elite group of students but trying to do as much as I could to boost the baseline mathematics capability in this entire country.
Unfortunately I had no money, no connections and only one person. So the only thing I knew was mathematics, algorithms and this probability and network theory. So after thinking for some time I actually came to an idea which was based on using these core mathematical areas that I'd been working with to actually build a solution for education that could be delivered for free on every smart phone. This is actually the project I'm working on right now called Expii.
Our principle is that actually you could turn that smart phone into a virtual tutor which automates what a person would get if they hired a tutor. It wouldn't be as good as a tutor, but it could get very close. And if you could deliver a free almost tutor on every smart phone in the United States you might solve equity problems, you might be able to allow everyone, even if they live in a different ZIPCode, to be able to access this tutor, which previously had only been accessible to people who are quite wealthy. Because today the cost of a tutor is in the $30 an hour, $20 an hour, $50 an hour depending on how you look at it. If you can reduce that to zero dollars an hour you would actually open up this accessibility to everyone.
If we realize that what we're trying to build is this virtual tutor then you actually, again, can start to conceptualize well knowledge happens to be all of these concepts linked together in this network. Then the problem becomes if you have this network how do you mathematically analyze where a person should go next? That can be done by using probability and statistics to find new ways to measure how much each person understands about each concept. Statistics, because the way that one would measure this is by asking them questions.
The experience someone has is they indicate what they want to learn and then the system starts to pitch questions at them, questions that they would need to know how to answer in order to understand what they claim they want to understand. As the questions come, based on people's responses to the questions, the system adjusts the difficulty of the questions and where the next questions come from in the same way that a human tutor adjusts their line of questioning based on whether a person is successful or not successful at the previous question. If the student reaches a point where they are hopelessly confused, meaning they don't know how to do this question at all, then the system suggests that maybe they could read some explanations. [transcript truncated]

'Money no problem. We care tech.'-China startups

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible t...

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

"We have 50 employees, almost half of them are from top universities around the globe,
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

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http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-magellans-circumnavigation-of-the-globe
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/03/letters-who-circumnavigated-earth-first.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circumnavigations
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-slave-who-circumnavigated-the-world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta
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http://www.biography.com/people/ferdinand-magellan-9395202
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-magellans-circumnavigation-of-the-globe
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/03/letters-who-circumnavigated-earth-first.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circumnavigations
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-slave-who-circumnavigated-the-world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Balboa.jpg
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At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom f...

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.
2011-4644P rev. 2017

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.
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Ivy League Open Letter to Incoming Students THINK for YOURSELF!

This is the open letter that was posted by professors at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The letter can be found here: ...

This is the open letter that was posted by professors at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The letter can be found here: https://jmp.princeton.edu/announcements/some-thoughts-and-advice-our-students-and-all-students
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Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn’t these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders—whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers—had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe’s military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe’s historic global supremacy.

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn’t these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders—whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers—had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe’s military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe’s historic global supremacy.

Winning with the Princeton Style Offense

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James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the ...

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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published: 03 Feb 2015

Access to Universal Health Care: New Jersey, The Nation and The Globe - Pt 1

A conference by the PolicyResearch Institute for the Region (PRIOR) at Princeton University assembles individuals at the forefront of promoting and implementing universal health care in the state, as well as experts with knowledge of national and global practices
Universal health care touches one of the deepest nerves running through public policy on state, national and international levels. In recent years, New Jersey has staged significant activity in this area, sparked by an engaged citizenry and proactive advocates in the various administrations, the legislature and the private sector. In addition, the 2008 presidential election has shined a spotlight on America's inadequacies regarding the provision of health care, which has sparked increased consideration of models from around the ...

published: 12 Oct 2010

Book Launch: The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can CombatGraft
Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national political cultures.
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope—to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's ...

Multi-Region API Design and Challenges

Consistently serving data to users around the globe is a challenging yet very interesting problem that is at the core of many application designs today. At HeartFlow, we have customers in Europe, Japan and the United States. In order to ensure a great quality of service, but also keep the data of our customers secure and compliant with the various regulatory bodies, we worked actively at designing a system of API services deployed in various geographical regions. In this session, we will be going over our current design, and describe some of the scalability and availability challenges we have encountered. We will finish by presenting an evaluation of the performance of the architected solution.
Razik Yousfi
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Razik Yousfi is the Principal Architect at Hea...

published: 28 Feb 2018

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg - How Google Works

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of Google. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world.
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEOLarry Page.
In this talk at the Oxford Union, Schmidt and Rosenberg discuss the inner workings of Google, touching on subjects such as company culture, innovation, and management techniques. The talk is focussed around the new book co-written by the pair, entitled "How Google Works". Includes questions from the audience.
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James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

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http://sentinelkennels.com/GPimages/CompletePyramidSourcebook.pdf
http://wands.ru/attachments/article/168/pyramids_EN.pdf
http://mathforum.org/sanders/creativegeometry/8.7dollarpyramid.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjiFeT0pDgw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m53s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgiGCjRZ0k&feature=youtu.be&t=36s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRyFKWcBP0&feature=youtu.be&t=59s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOvwlrPfvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50x-GS-tNUQ
http://www.thezionion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grandics.pdf
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bintro.html
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bcq.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication
http://ve2zaz.net/Presentations/Downloads/VE2ZAZ_EME_Presentation.pdf
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/EME_2010_Hbk.pdf
http://www.inhabitots.com/this-new-more-accurate-world-map-wins-prestigious-design-award-in-japan/
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Pyramid Documents Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-eTaSEhPRuEMnVNSzJRZk1pR1E
http://sentinelkennels.com/GPimages/CompletePyramidSourcebook.pdf
http://wands.ru/attachments/article/168/pyramids_EN.pdf
http://mathforum.org/sanders/creativegeometry/8.7dollarpyramid.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjiFeT0pDgw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m53s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgiGCjRZ0k&feature=youtu.be&t=36s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRyFKWcBP0&feature=youtu.be&t=59s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOvwlrPfvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50x-GS-tNUQ
http://www.thezionion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grandics.pdf
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bintro.html
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bcq.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication
http://ve2zaz.net/Presentations/Downloads/VE2ZAZ_EME_Presentation.pdf
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/EME_2010_Hbk.pdf
http://www.inhabitots.com/this-new-more-accurate-world-map-wins-prestigious-design-award-in-japan/
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Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Access to Universal Health Care: New Jersey, The Nation and The Globe - Pt 1

Book Launch: The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can CombatGraft
Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national...

How Citizens and Leaders Can CombatGraft
Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national political cultures.
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope—to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's presence. He looks at successful and unsuccessful attempts to employ anticorruption investigative commissions to combat political theft and venal behaviour. He explores how the globe's least corrupt nations reached that exceptional goal.
The Corruption Cure is published by Princeton University Press.
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/book-launch-corruption-cure
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/

How Citizens and Leaders Can CombatGraft
Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national political cultures.
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope—to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's presence. He looks at successful and unsuccessful attempts to employ anticorruption investigative commissions to combat political theft and venal behaviour. He explores how the globe's least corrupt nations reached that exceptional goal.
The Corruption Cure is published by Princeton University Press.
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/book-launch-corruption-cure
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/

Multi-Region API Design and Challenges

Consistently serving data to users around the globe is a challenging yet very interesting problem that is at the core of many application designs today. At Hear...

Consistently serving data to users around the globe is a challenging yet very interesting problem that is at the core of many application designs today. At HeartFlow, we have customers in Europe, Japan and the United States. In order to ensure a great quality of service, but also keep the data of our customers secure and compliant with the various regulatory bodies, we worked actively at designing a system of API services deployed in various geographical regions. In this session, we will be going over our current design, and describe some of the scalability and availability challenges we have encountered. We will finish by presenting an evaluation of the performance of the architected solution.
Razik Yousfi
Principal Architect
HeartFlow Inc.
Razik Yousfi is the Principal Architect at HeartFlow focusing on designing scalable architectures for its image-based processing pipeline and data management, leading the web visualization team and driving Technology excellence. In his role, he builds products that satisfy the customer needs and disrupt the industry standards. Razik specializes in software engineering, code maintainability, and consistency of the software architectures across the company. Previously, Razik was a Research and Development software engineer working on the design and architecture of an interactive workstation for the 3D modeling of the coronary system. Prior to HeartFlow, Razik worked at Systran on large scale language translation platforms. He graduated from EPITA, a French school of computer science, after doing his end-of-studies internship at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton.
Koonal BharadwajTeam Leader-Operations
HeartFlow
Koonal Bharadwaj is a Senior Software Engineer in HeartFlow's Cloud & Backend team responsible for developing distributed APIs and other cloud based applications. His specifically focuses on designing and building microservice architectures, scalable and RESTful APIs, as well as API Software Development Kits used throughout the department. Koonal graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors and Masters in Biomechanics and Imaging.

Consistently serving data to users around the globe is a challenging yet very interesting problem that is at the core of many application designs today. At HeartFlow, we have customers in Europe, Japan and the United States. In order to ensure a great quality of service, but also keep the data of our customers secure and compliant with the various regulatory bodies, we worked actively at designing a system of API services deployed in various geographical regions. In this session, we will be going over our current design, and describe some of the scalability and availability challenges we have encountered. We will finish by presenting an evaluation of the performance of the architected solution.
Razik Yousfi
Principal Architect
HeartFlow Inc.
Razik Yousfi is the Principal Architect at HeartFlow focusing on designing scalable architectures for its image-based processing pipeline and data management, leading the web visualization team and driving Technology excellence. In his role, he builds products that satisfy the customer needs and disrupt the industry standards. Razik specializes in software engineering, code maintainability, and consistency of the software architectures across the company. Previously, Razik was a Research and Development software engineer working on the design and architecture of an interactive workstation for the 3D modeling of the coronary system. Prior to HeartFlow, Razik worked at Systran on large scale language translation platforms. He graduated from EPITA, a French school of computer science, after doing his end-of-studies internship at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton.
Koonal BharadwajTeam Leader-Operations
HeartFlow
Koonal Bharadwaj is a Senior Software Engineer in HeartFlow's Cloud & Backend team responsible for developing distributed APIs and other cloud based applications. His specifically focuses on designing and building microservice architectures, scalable and RESTful APIs, as well as API Software Development Kits used throughout the department. Koonal graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors and Masters in Biomechanics and Imaging.

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of Google. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world.
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEOLarry Page.
In this talk at the Oxford Union, Schmidt and Rosenberg discuss the inner workings of Google, touching on subjects such as company culture, innovation, and management techniques. The talk is focussed around the new book co-written by the pair, entitled "How Google Works". Includes questions from the audience.
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Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of Google. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world.
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEOLarry Page.
In this talk at the Oxford Union, Schmidt and Rosenberg discuss the inner workings of Google, touching on subjects such as company culture, innovation, and management techniques. The talk is focussed around the new book co-written by the pair, entitled "How Google Works". Includes questions from the audience.
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ABOUT THE OXFORDUNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.
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James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

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This year, as we partnered with COVEAlliance (a primary school and health center in Uganda), we learned about the challenges faced in health in the Kapeeka community and sought ways we can, as partners, seek to address health disparities for our family across the globe. Last summer, COVE staff and GROW interns noted that the current medical facilities are lacking the necessary access to water for hand-washing between patients. Temporary measures in increasing sanitation have been implemented, such as the use of hand-washing stations, gloves, and hand sanitizer. However, these are only short-term measures, and studies have shown that hand-washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and acute respiratory infections by a quarter. Currently, there is also a Typhoid Fever epidemic in the area (51% of the rural population), and hand-washing is absolutely necessary to reduce transmission of the disease.
GlobeMed at Princeton hopes to raise $3,000 this year to provide the health clinic of the St. Jerome COVE Center with running water. The development of this infrastructure is the first step to promoting hand sanitation, which is vital for the prevention of communicable diseases that afflict the region.
Your support is crucial to expanding the services offered by the clinic and improving the quality and quantity of healthcare for both the students at St. Jerome COVE Primary School and the surrounding community. With your help, GlobeMed at Princeton and COVE Alliance hope to strengthen their partnership and create a sustainable, long-lasting impact in the community. We hope that you consider making a donation to our cause here; anything that you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

How a Math Algorithm Could Educate the Whole World — for Free | Po-Shen Loh

Po-Shen Loh is a Princeton-educated mathematician, Carnegie Mellon professor, the head coach of the U.S.International Math Olympiad team, and now he’s adding start-up entrepreneur to his knock-out resume. Loh has created Expii, a math and science education tool that aims to turn every smartphone into a tutor. Loh combines his mathematical expertise with crowd-contributing strategies from sites like Wikipedia and Quora to “deliver free education to all of the world using a system that self-organizes in the same way that mathematics self-organizes from its basic assumptions,” says Loh. He hopes it will bring some equity to U.S. education and be a learning revolution for those who could not traditionally afford a tutor. “The idea is that this should cure boredom at the high end and also cure confusion at the struggling end,” says Loh.
Po-Shen Loh is a Hertz Foundation fellow and recipient of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Grant for graduate study in the applications of the physical, biological and engineering sciences. With the support of the Fannie and John HertzFoundation, he pursued a PhD in combinatorics at the PureMathDepartment at Princeton University.
The Hertz Foundation mission is to provide unique financial and fellowship support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the hard sciences. Hertz Fellowships are among the most prestigious in the world, and the foundation has invested over $200 million in Hertz Fellows since 1963 (present value) and supported over 1,100 brilliant and creative young scientists, who have gone on to become Nobel laureates, high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, inventors, Silicon Valley leaders, and tenured university professors. For more information, visit hertzfoundation.org.
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Transcript: About three years ago I became the national coach of the United StatesInternationalMath Olympian Team. I was very happy for a day thinking this is very interesting. But the next day I started to think that maybe I should do something with this. And I decided that I wanted to focus not only on training an elite group of students but trying to do as much as I could to boost the baseline mathematics capability in this entire country.
Unfortunately I had no money, no connections and only one person. So the only thing I knew was mathematics, algorithms and this probability and network theory. So after thinking for some time I actually came to an idea which was based on using these core mathematical areas that I'd been working with to actually build a solution for education that could be delivered for free on every smart phone. This is actually the project I'm working on right now called Expii.
Our principle is that actually you could turn that smart phone into a virtual tutor which automates what a person would get if they hired a tutor. It wouldn't be as good as a tutor, but it could get very close. And if you could deliver a free almost tutor on every smart phone in the United States you might solve equity problems, you might be able to allow everyone, even if they live in a different ZIPCode, to be able to access this tutor, which previously had only been accessible to people who are quite wealthy. Because today the cost of a tutor is in the $30 an hour, $20 an hour, $50 an hour depending on how you look at it. If you can reduce that to zero dollars an hour you would actually open up this accessibility to everyone.
If we realize that what we're trying to build is this virtual tutor then you actually, again, can start to conceptualize well knowledge happens to be all of these concepts linked together in this network. Then the problem becomes if you have this network how do you mathematically analyze where a person should go next? That can be done by using probability and statistics to find new ways to measure how much each person understands about each concept. Statistics, because the way that one would measure this is by asking them questions.
The experience someone has is they indicate what they want to learn and then the system starts to pitch questions at them, questions that they would need to know how to answer in order to understand what they claim they want to understand. As the questions come, based on people's responses to the questions, the system adjusts the difficulty of the questions and where the next questions come from in the same way that a human tutor adjusts their line of questioning based on whether a person is successful or not successful at the previous question. If the student reaches a point where they are hopelessly confused, meaning they don't know how to do this question at all, then the system suggests that maybe they could read some explanations. [transcript truncated]

'Money no problem. We care tech.'-China startups

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Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT...I don't think that's even possible three five
or ten years ago,"said He Bofei, a Standford-graduate running a startup in Beijing..

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There’s no doubt that Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) intended to have a successful journey when his expedition set off from Spain on September 20, 1519. He had planned for the departure meticulously, hoping to prove that people could sail all the way around the world, and to be the first to do it. His ambition was spurred on by the adventures of previous explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the man who marched across the Panamanian isthmus to the Pacific Ocean. There was little doubt in Magellan’s mind that it could be done.
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http://www.biography.com/people/ferdinand-magellan-9395202
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-magellans-circumnavigation-of-the-globe
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circumnavigations
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-slave-who-circumnavigated-the-world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta
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5:35

Communiversity in Princeton - Flash Mob

Communiversity in Princeton, NJ
Flash Mob : Students from the Westminster Choir College d...

'Shakespeare at Princeton'

At Princeton University, the enduring works of Shakespeare have made an indelible impact on generations of students. In honor of the Bard's 450th birthday on April 21, this video captures some of the ways in which Shakespeare's timeless embrace of the human condition continues to inspire students.

55:20

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of P...

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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Sandia Labs: Who We Are

Sandia strives to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.
2011-4644P rev. 2017

James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera

James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.

GLOBEBUSTERS - The Power of Pyramids on Flat Earth

ShowLinks:
Pyramid Documents Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-eTaSEhPRuEMnVNSzJRZk1pR1E
http://sentinelkennels.com/GPimages/CompletePyramidSourcebook.pdf
http://wands.ru/attachments/article/168/pyramids_EN.pdf
http://mathforum.org/sanders/creativegeometry/8.7dollarpyramid.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjiFeT0pDgw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m53s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgiGCjRZ0k&feature=youtu.be&t=36s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRyFKWcBP0&feature=youtu.be&t=59s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOvwlrPfvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50x-GS-tNUQ
http://www.thezionion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grandics.pdf
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bintro.html
http://www.dxmaps.com/jt65bcq.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication
http://ve2zaz.net/Presentations/Downloads/VE2ZAZ_EME_Presentation.pdf
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/EME_2010_Hbk.pdf
http://www.inhabitots.com/this-new-more-accurate-world-map-wins-prestigious-design-award-in-japan/
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55:20

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of P...

The Global Consciousness Project - Ph.D. Roger Nelson

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant. Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it. Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators. When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di. Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?
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1:29:06

Access to Universal Health Care: New Jersey, The Nation and The Globe - Pt 1

A conference by the Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR) at Princeton Universi...

Book Launch: The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can CombatGraft
Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national political cultures.
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope—to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's presence. He looks at successful and unsuccessful attempts to employ anticorruption investigative commissions to combat political theft and venal behaviour. He explores how the globe's least corrupt nations reached that exceptional goal.
The Corruption Cure is published by Princeton University Press.
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/book-launch-corruption-cure
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/

Multi-Region API Design and Challenges

Consistently serving data to users around the globe is a challenging yet very interesting problem that is at the core of many application designs today. At HeartFlow, we have customers in Europe, Japan and the United States. In order to ensure a great quality of service, but also keep the data of our customers secure and compliant with the various regulatory bodies, we worked actively at designing a system of API services deployed in various geographical regions. In this session, we will be going over our current design, and describe some of the scalability and availability challenges we have encountered. We will finish by presenting an evaluation of the performance of the architected solution.
Razik Yousfi
Principal Architect
HeartFlow Inc.
Razik Yousfi is the Principal Architect at HeartFlow focusing on designing scalable architectures for its image-based processing pipeline and data management, leading the web visualization team and driving Technology excellence. In his role, he builds products that satisfy the customer needs and disrupt the industry standards. Razik specializes in software engineering, code maintainability, and consistency of the software architectures across the company. Previously, Razik was a Research and Development software engineer working on the design and architecture of an interactive workstation for the 3D modeling of the coronary system. Prior to HeartFlow, Razik worked at Systran on large scale language translation platforms. He graduated from EPITA, a French school of computer science, after doing his end-of-studies internship at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton.
Koonal BharadwajTeam Leader-Operations
HeartFlow
Koonal Bharadwaj is a Senior Software Engineer in HeartFlow's Cloud & Backend team responsible for developing distributed APIs and other cloud based applications. His specifically focuses on designing and building microservice architectures, scalable and RESTful APIs, as well as API Software Development Kits used throughout the department. Koonal graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors and Masters in Biomechanics and Imaging.

57:36

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg - How Google Works

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of ...

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg - How Google Works

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, and the executive chairman of Google. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world.
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEOLarry Page.
In this talk at the Oxford Union, Schmidt and Rosenberg discuss the inner workings of Google, touching on subjects such as company culture, innovation, and management techniques. The talk is focussed around the new book co-written by the pair, entitled "How Google Works". Includes questions from the audience.
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1:02:17

Davos 2017 - Raising Life Expectancy and Expectations

http://www.weforum.org/
Even in advanced economies, one-third of deaths that occur could b...

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg - How Google W...

Davos 2017 - Raising Life Expectancy and Expectati...

It turns out that a theory explaining how we might detect parallel universes and prediction for the end of the world was proposed and completed by physicist Stephen Hawking shortly before he died ... &nbsp;. According to reports, the work predicts that the universe would eventually end when stars run out of energy ... ....

In another blow to the Trump administration Monday, the US Supreme Court decided Arizona must continue to issue state driver’s licenses to so-called Dreamer immigrants and refused to hear an effort by the state to challenge the Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of young adults brought into the country illegally as children, Reuters reported ... – WN.com. Jack Durschlag....

An explosion on Sunday night in Austin shared "similarities" with three bombs that went off in the Texas capital earlier this month and authorities were warning on Monday that they are dealing with a serial bomber who is targeting the city, according to the Washington Post... “So we’ve definitely seen a change in the method that this suspect … is using.” ... “And we assure you that we are listening ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....

Uber announced on Monday that it was pulling all of its self-driving cars from public roads in Arizona and San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh after a female pedestrian was reportedly killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, according to The Verge.&nbsp; ... “We are fully cooperating with local authorities in their investigation of this incident.” ... "Some incredibly sad news out of Arizona....

A panel of federal judges dismissed the Republican lawsuit challenging a new congressional map that was imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, ending one of two challenges to the map on Monday, according to The Inquirer. The judge's decision said that the Republican lawmakers who brought the challenge did not have legal standing to do so and that the case is inappropriate for the court to take up at this time ...ChiefU.S....

The accident in Tempe, Arizona, marked the first fatality from a self-driving vehicle, which are still being tested around the globe, and could derail efforts to fast-track the introduction of the new technology in the US ... ....

The presstitute picks it up and airs it to the seven corners of this globe – and the western sheeple are brainwashed once again ... He is the author of&nbsp;Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and CorporateGreed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe....

Oprah Winfrey said she has cut back on the amount of news she watches because it makes you “depressed if you watch the news all the time” ...A Wrinkle In TimeEuropeanPremiere – London. She added that she also didn’t “have the amount of energy” required to take on the mammoth job, following calls from her fans around the world for her to take up the presidential mantle after her inspiring speech at the GoldenGlobes earlier this year ... ....